Chapter 259 (Extra 4)
Parallel time and space, China, a certain city.
Qi Ruibin directed a cold chain transport truck to back up to the side of the warehouse. After the truck stopped, several young men nearby came over, opened the door, and began to unload the goods in a hurry.
The driver jumped out of the car and handed over the cargo documents. Qi Ruibin took it and handed the driver a bottle of water. He said in a familiar tone, "Master Zou, you've worked hard on the way. Let's go to the side to have some water and rest. They will be finished unloading soon."
The driver was indeed thirsty, so he walked to the side, unscrewed the water bottle, tilted his head back and drank most of it. He looked at the cold storage room next to him and said, "Boss Qi's business is getting better and better."
The frequency of purchasing goods is frequent. At the beginning, we could purchase one and a half trucks a day, but now we can purchase at least one truck a day.
"To make a living." Qi Ruibin said with a smile.
It’s also because his current platform is good.
At first, he worked as a product distributor for "Mou Tuan Youxuan". Later, he had a car accident, which left him with a traumatic experience in driving, so he resigned from the company.
After leaving my job, I registered for a group-selected product and started wholesale. The business was average, and I was barely making ends meet.
Later, a new group buying platform came out, called "Time and Space Selection". The conditions offered to attract investors were very good, so he started to operate "Time and Space Selection".
The model of 'Time and Space Selection' is somewhat different from that of several other group-buying platforms. During the trial run, there were not many people in the group. Later, it was upgraded to a large group of 10,000 people, but there were only about one or two thousand merchants, and the rest were all customers. Moreover, customers would update automatically frequently. Those who did not purchase goods for more than five days would be deemed to have automatically left the group, and new people would come in immediately afterwards.
If someone who was previously kicked out of the group wants to join again, just click on the original link to join the group and wait in line.
Because they have a wide range of products and the prices are cheap, there are a lot of people queuing up every day waiting to join the group, so they never have to worry about customers.
As long as the product is of good quality and cheaper than the market price, there is basically no problem selling it.
After unloading and counting the goods, Qi Ruibin randomly checked a few boxes to check the quality. After settling the bill with the driver, he returned to the office, turned on the computer, and prepared to start the group purchase.
Call up relevant pictures, find out the content that has been posted before, send out red envelopes to start the group, skillfully put the products on the shelves, and link them into the group.
Black pork jerky, 100% additive-free, a healthy snack for both adults and children. Available in three flavors: pepper, spicy, and five-spice... 200g/portion, special group price 21.9/portion...
【Pork Meatball Reunion...】
Qi Ruibin specializes in prepared meats and has recently been negotiating a certain brand of spicy pork trotters. He wants to ensure that the preferential price meets the group purchase criteria while also ensuring his own profit, so he has been haggling over the price with the supplier.
Seven or eight products were shipped in one go. Qi Ruibin looked at the orders scrolling in the group. The printer next to him was working non-stop, printing out the order information and customer addresses one by one, and arranging the shipment in the afternoon.
Qi Ruibin glanced at the long list of labels, staring to see if there were any special labels.
Normally, labels are black text on a white background, with the customer's order information and delivery address clearly printed on them. However, when he first started the group delivery, the label information was all mosaic. He thought there was something wrong with the printer or the background. Before he could check, the staff of "Time and Space Selection" came to his door in person, took away the mosaic label, scanned it with their machine, reported the order quantity, and took it away to deliver the goods personally.
As for the reason, the staff of "Time and Space Selection" will not tell you, so even though it has been a few years, Qi Ruibin is still curious. Every time a group purchase starts, he stares at the label to see if there are any special orders.
In fact, there is no need to keep an eye on it. As soon as the order appears, the staff of "Time and Space Selection" will come to your door to pick up the goods and ship them personally.
They also seem to only ship on special orders.
The printing speed gradually slowed down. Qi Ruibin skillfully folded the labels. After the printing gradually stopped, he tore off the labels and called the employees to arrange packaging and delivery.
Then I went to the backstage to take a look. The items were not sold out yet, but there were not many left.
There will be frozen raw meat products arriving in the afternoon, and the group will continue in the afternoon.
He was chatting casually in the group. Although he was a merchant, he was willing to buy something he liked and was cheap.
For example, the casual bag interspersed in his group message is also a product of the re-group. He saw it in the group last month and thought the color and style were very suitable for him, so he bought one. As a result, his son liked it when he got it back, and when he wanted to buy it from the group again, it was sold out.
He checked online, thinking that if the price was similar, he would buy another one online without waiting for the group sale. However, he couldn't find the bag, not even the brand name, and it was not available on several online shopping platforms.
There is a company named "Feitu", but it does not produce bags, so he guessed that the so-called "Feitu" bags should belong to a less well-known niche brand, or a newly launched brand that has not yet gained fame.
But the bag is really good. Whether it is workmanship or materials, he feels that it is no different from the brand-name bags he has bought before. He liked it very much when he got it, and felt like he had found a treasure, so he kept an eye on the messages in the group to see when the group would be reunited.
Now I finally saw that the 'Feitu' bag is in group purchase again, so I first bought a style that I bought last time, and then I took a fancy to a waist bag. The waist bag was not in group purchase last time, so this should be a new product.
In addition to canvas ones, there are also genuine leather bags. He had seen genuine leather bags last time, but he didn't think much of it at the time and just bought one for himself. Now he saw it again, picked out a camel-colored one and placed an order. He will give it to his wife after it arrives.
Judging from the workmanship and fabric of the canvas bag, he felt that the quality of the Feitu leather bag should not be bad.
At the same time as he placed the order, the printer that had just stopped printing spit out a few more order labels. It must be that some group member saw the message and copied the goods he had sent out.
Qi Ruibin glanced at it, paused, and said with a smile: "Another special order."
He tore off the order and looked at the label. It was an ordinary QR code, but no matter which software he used to scan it, it showed as invalid and he could not see the buyer's information at all.
The staff of Time and Space Selection came to his house again, scanned and checked the order information, took away three boxes of black pork jerky, twenty pounds of pork meatballs, twenty pounds of braised beef, and a box of boneless chicken feet from him, and then turned and left.
Yao Fenglin waited until her son finished eating, then took out her son's special handkerchief and wiped his mouth.
The handkerchief is soft in texture and becomes softer and more useful with each wash. It is perfect for children.
But the only drawback is that the print on it will easily fall off after being washed many times, but this does not affect the quality of the handkerchief itself.
Just wash it off. The print is a bit tacky. After all, it’s rare to come across such a nice thing in the group.
Later she wanted to stock up a few more pieces, but the group leader had not started a handkerchief group for a long time.
Yao Fenglin had bought several handkerchiefs online before, but was not very satisfied with any of them. Either they became loose after washing, or they were not soft enough, or they did not absorb water.
There are also water-absorbent ones, which are made of similar material to towels, but they are not easy to dry after washing.
Even if a child uses several handkerchiefs in turn, they still need to be washed once a day, as they are not easy to dry and affect their use.
Using paper towels is convenient, but I am worried that they contain fluorescent agents, which are bad for children's skin, so I have been on the way to buy handkerchiefs and have been changing them because I was not satisfied.
Later, Yao Fenglin was pulled into a group buying group by a friend, where there were many things and they were cheap.
That day, she accidentally saw someone in the group selling small handkerchiefs in a group, and she and her friends were shocked.
"There's really everything in this group. Some people even sell handkerchiefs."
Those who sell goods in the group only sell things that have high profits and can make money. How much can a small handkerchief sell for at most?
When Yao Fenglin saw the team leader swearing that it was pure cotton and promoting a nostalgic style, she didn't feel anything about it. On the contrary, she felt that the prints were not good-looking, but she liked the material of the handkerchief.
Yao Fenglin didn't hesitate and ordered two.
It didn't look very good when it arrived, but when I touched it, I felt the material was okay. After being washed, it became softer. For the first time, Yao Fenglin felt that the handkerchief she bought was quite satisfactory.
The more I use it, the more I like it, although it becomes uglier the more I wash it.
Later, I ran into the group leader who was holding another group sale, and I bought two or three more. I barely managed to grab two or three. The group leader might be reluctant to sell them. He was very stingy every time he held a group sale, and only sold a few pieces at a time. Buying more than ten pieces at a time was considered a large quantity.
She thought she would save up slowly. Not only could her children use them, she also bought a few for men, in gray-blue plaid, which would also be suitable for her parents.
As a result, it became something that was hard to come by. Later, I saw that the group leader often started other groups, selling all kinds of things, but he no longer sold handkerchiefs.
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Yuan Songqing is planning to open a Yunnan cuisine restaurant. In addition to adding Yunnan elements to the decoration style, he also incorporates the nostalgic style that is quietly becoming popular.
This was his first entrepreneurial venture after he decided to resign, and he was very dedicated to it. He first discussed and communicated with the designer bit by bit, combining Yunnan elements with elements of the 1970s and 1980s, and personally selected decorations from that era from the Internet.
He didn't want to buy imitations, so he bought second-hand items from a handicraft collection website.
However, most of these items only have one in stock. After buying one, you have to find another store to buy it. You need to piece together the goods and you cannot buy everything you want at once.
His store has two floors, and there are a lot of decorations that need to be matched, so he can only collect them bit by bit.
Yuan Songqing bought a second-hand canvas messenger bag with slogans from that era printed on it; he bought work clothes from a state-owned factory at that time; and he bought a second-hand enamel pot. This enamel pot was a bit worn and had paint peeling in several places, but in terms of workmanship and materials, the modern nostalgic enamel products on the Internet could not be compared with the enamel products that were actually left over from that era.
Moreover, the quantity was far from enough, and some of the prices were too high. He felt it was unnecessary, so he collected them bit by bit patiently.
In his design plan, he wanted to replace all the tea cups used by customers in the store with enamel pots, and use enamel plates from the 1970s and 1980s for serving dishes.
But these must be of uniform size, preferably new.
But it's impossible. Where can such brand new enamel products be passed down? So I can only buy modern enamel pots and plates online.
Yuan Songqing went to several stores and bought one from each of them, then compared the quality and patterns.
They were the same size, but just by holding it in his hand he could tell that it was incomparable to the second-hand items he had found.
Without looking at other things in terms of workmanship, just look at the raised handle on the jar lid. These modern processed ones are a bit perfunctory and not as easy to hold as the old enamel products. The handle on the modern jar lid is not only short, but the depression in the middle is not obvious. It feels like there is no fulcrum when pinching, and it is not easy to use.
Older enamelware didn't have this problem and was noticeably thicker; modern pieces are a bit thinner.
I looked at samples from several stores, but I was not satisfied with any of them. It didn't matter which one I bought.
The same goes for the enamel plates, they are too thin and have no texture.
Just when I was overwhelmed by these things, I saw someone posting about the gg of the 'Time and Space Selection' group buying platform that day, so I joined the platform's group, thinking about the chicken, fish, meat, eggs, various seasonal vegetables, etc. that I would need after opening a store. If the things on the platform are really good and cheap, this can also be a good purchasing channel, so I have been hanging out in the group and buying something from time to time.
Unexpectedly, it was a coincidence that day he saw someone in the group selling straw hats from the 1970s and 1980s. The pictures even had slogans unique to that era printed on them, as well as conical hats that were rarely seen in the city. What made him even more excited was that the person also started a group selling enamel pots, and noted "brand new, original old goods."
Yuan Songqing was so happy, but he only had time to grab two straw hats and three teacups before they were sold out. He also had to buy the bamboo hat.
When he looked at the total number of groups, he almost died of anger. After being in the group for so long, this was the first time he saw a group with only a dozen or so items for a single product...
Forget it, let’s check the quality first. He is still worried that this person is making false advertising.
As a result, after receiving the goods, I was so happy that I almost jumped up.
He has seen a lot of such items during this period. He can tell whether they are good or bad just by looking at them and weighing them with his hands. He is almost becoming a half-expert.
Even without the slogan printed on it, the simple design of the straw hat reminded him of the straw hat his grandfather wore when he was a child.
The three enamel pots were all thick and had the name of the factory printed on them. They were obviously genuine original products.
He began to wait for the group leader's goods, but after waiting for a long time, he found out that this person opened a vegetable group.
Yuan Songqing:? ?
Thinking I might as well show my support, I just bought some leeks, spinach and peppers.
The vegetables had a strong flavor, especially the leeks, which reminded him of the taste of his childhood. They were unlike the leeks he bought from the market, which had no flavor at all.
It was not a bad purchase, the quality of the vegetables was also good
This is a high-quality leader, worth squatting.
He continued to wait and found that the group leader was not very dedicated. The sales in the group were not bad, so he should quickly replenish the stock and start a group to make money.
But they refused and there was no movement.
Yuan Songqing was about to give up when he finally came across it again. It was just like squeezing toothpaste, the quantity was not much, and he didn't dare to buy it all, fearing that the product would be sold out by the time he changed the purchase quantity. So he could only click two or three times quickly to pay, and then returned to the group. As a result, it was sold out in seconds.
Keep waiting, he needs these things, especially the enamel products, he is so short of them!
After seeing the genuine original products, I no longer want to buy modern products online.
He wants all the accessories to be original and genuine. Is he really that obsessive? Why don't you start another group buy soon? Can you throw it all into the group and get rid of it all at once?
In the end, there was no movement again.
Okay, you are the boss.
Yuan Songqing waits for the "uncle" to start a group every day.
Fortunately, the number of groups opened by the "uncle" increased and the products were particularly rich. He really found a lot of good things and even bought compasses and ballpoint pens left over from that era.
He also squatted down to the enamel plates, enamel basins, and enamel spittoons, and he found that he had fallen in love with these things.
What surprised him even more were the iron and bamboo thermoses that were unique to the 1970s and 1980s!
Yuan Songqing nodded with great satisfaction, feeling that this 'old man' existed simply to help him match the decoration style.
He even managed to snatch up the small handkerchiefs of that era.
How many surprises does this 'master' have that he doesn't know about?
It’s just that the “uncle” starts a group based on his mood, not money.
Fortunately, although the battle was long, he was really happy with his purchase. All the products of "Uncle" were high-quality. Apart from other things, at least they were authentic and the prices were not high. Buying those new enamel products was much cheaper than buying second-hand ones from handicraft collection websites.
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